Re: group based judgment

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 13:36:00 MDT


Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> ### Define the way you use the word "profiling" and differentiate it from
> the procedure Lee mentioned - El Al guards letting 80 year-old grandmas from
> Kansas go through without a cavity search.

My grandma isn't 80 yet, but I can personally attest that El Al
disassembles her luggage just like everyone else's, even if they let her
grandson into the screening area to help lift it.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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